That same summer, he offended the queen-mother when he refused to make an astrological prognostication for her son because he regarded predictions of the future of individuals as superstitious and contrary to church law. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The old queen-mother was fairly afraid of her; she even left off beating ❋ Unknown (2006)
Words of the like import were designedly cast abroad by the queen-mother and her adherents. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
Thereupon, the court was all in an uproar and tumult, the queen-mother bearing almost the whole blame of the enterprise, and her retainers being suspected and accused. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
For the favors shown to other strangers were nothing in comparison with the honors conferred on him; the king invited him to partake of his own pastimes and recreations both at home and abroad, carrying him with him a-hunting, and made him his intimate so far that he permitted him to see the queen-mother, and converse frequently with her. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
How is it that an egg deposited by the queen-mother in a more than ordinarily capacious compartment hatches a grub, “just like any other,” which grub, feasting upon the concentrated food stored within its cell, expands and lengthens and emerges an amber queen in all her glory? ❋ Unknown (2003)
By the mediation of Armand-Jean du Plessis (15851642), cardinal-duke of Richelieu, a treaty was concluded between Luynes and the queen-mother (1619). ❋ Unknown (2001)
Arrest and murder of Concini; the queen-mother banished to Blois (1617). ❋ Unknown (2001)
The Guises, at first rivals of the queen-mother and then in alliance with her, conducted the affairs of state and surpassed in influence their opponents, the Catholic constable, Montmorency, and his nephews, the three Châtillon brothers: Gaspard, Admiral de Coligny; François d'Andelot, and Cardinal Châtillon, later leaders of the Huguenots. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Though of moderate size (too small, indeed, to accommodate at the same time the king and the queen-mother with their respective suites, for which reason it is occupied by each only during the absence of the other), the appearance of the castle is imposing, and its interior decorations render it ❋ Various (N/A)
The queen-mother, who was an envious person, was not content with the match, because, said she, no one knows where she came from, and, besides, she is dumb, something that would make people wonder if a king should marry her. ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
Meanwhile the queen-mother arranged another marriage for her son; but during the banquet the saint brought Pauline royal robes, and restored her three children to her. ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
My friend, the queen-mother has always felt toward you as toward a son. ❋ Kalidasa (N/A)
Plexippus, the brothers of Althæa, the fair queen-mother. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
Scarcely had the king gone when the queen-mother sent for a mason, and made him build a wall near the kitchen-sink, so that it formed a sort of box. ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
The queen-mother, O son of Kunti, gave the portion intended for herself unto her daughter, and herself took from ignorance the portion intended for the latter. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
The king and the queen-mother, helpless amid the storm of factions which threatened their destruction, smiled now on Condé, now on Guise, -- gave ear to the Cardinal of ❋ Various (N/A)
As he was making preparations for departure to the hermitage, Karavaka, a messenger from the queen-mother, arrives asking his presence at the city of Hastinapur. ❋ R. N. Dutta (N/A)
Here were arranged the pictures of father and queen-mother and brothers and sisters, and the little souvenirs of home with which, as an English girl of seventeen, she fought the homesickness inevitable to a stranger in a foreign land; and here many of them remain, in the rooms still called by her name. ❋ Minerva Brace Norton (N/A)
But one Karabhaka has come from the city, a messenger from the queen-mother. ❋ Kalidasa (N/A)
